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The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. — Robert Baldwin Ross

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean. — Hilaire Belloc

When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date. — Donald Hall

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. — Simon Callow

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men. — Epictetus

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up. — Noam Chomsky

But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything. — Oscar Wilde

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. — Robertson Davies

I wasn't old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that. — Kelly Oxford

Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002. — Philip Zaleski

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. — Robert Darnton

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. — Henry James

The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. — E. M. Forster

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses — A. J. Jacobs

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. — George Santayana

Theres nothing to fear but
fears themselves, such as monsters,
rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
monsters, and oxford commas. — Craig Benzine

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. — A.A. Milne

who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? — Vampire Weekend

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford. — Rory Kinnear

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar. — Derek Kilmer

be emotionally affected by someone or something that one admires; become ecstatic: teenagers swoon over Japanese pop singers. — Oxford University Press

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense. — Al McGuire

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub. — Kevin Whately

I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you? — Kate Beckinsale

A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in — Philip Pullman

(Oxford: Clarendon — Friedrich A. Hayek

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind. — William J. Clinton

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being. — William E. Gladstone

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — George Bernard Shaw

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever. — Arundhati Roy

At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists. — E. M. Forster

If that doesn't seem dominant enough, consider the fact that the word "google" is now an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary - as a verb. — Peter Thiel

The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press. — Sweyn Plowright

One of my biggest Achilles' heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there's hope for everyone. — Kanye West

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs. — Kanye West

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford. — John Aubrey

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. — Kenneth Grahame

Everything means something. — Philip Pullman

There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises. — Kelly Oxford

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing! — Katherine Parkinson

Oxford; where you read with your lover, drink with your tutor and sleep with your books — Unknown

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. — Margaret Thatcher

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. — Christopher Hitchens

Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there. — Kevin Whately

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive.It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference , that's all. — Barbara Pym

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something. — Kanye West

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well. — David Hasselhoff

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. — J. Paul Getty

Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. — T. S. Eliot

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury. — Kanye West

Brad Pitt is older than Archie Bunker was in the first two seasons of All In The Family. — Kelly Oxford

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath

I had weaseled my way into their hearts like I knew I would. — Kelly Oxford

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford. — John Sulston

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it. — Eve Best

Fascinating," I said, turning toward Ian. "You never told me Simon went to Oxford."
"Simon went to Oxford, Sophie. — Fisher Amelie

We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet. — Michael Palin

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not. — Nigel Rees

wonder adults were always miserable. A paycheck was just a bit of compensation for putting up with bullshit. — Kelly Oxford

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! — Umberto Eco

We share half our genes with the banana. — Robert May, Baron May Of Oxford

Oxford University offered prizes for the works that attacked Vedic knowledge. — Devamrita Swami

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance. — Jeanette Winterson

How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm? — Mike Tucker

Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description. — P.G. Wodehouse

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. — Vera Brittain

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. — John Ortberg

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. — John Dryden

Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well. — Bernard Cornwell

Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree. — Cecil Rhodes

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.' — Richard Ayoade

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Oxford: — Gary L. Wenk

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car. — Kanye West

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939. — Martin Ryle

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do. — Jeanette Winterson

I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes. — Kelly Oxford

I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me. — Taron Egerton

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi — William Faulkner

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. — Lynne Truss

Sorry, I thought I was just thinking that. — Kelly Oxford

Do or don't, there is no don. Don is an honor not bestowed on any procrastinator, not even a professor at Oxford. — Jarod Kintz

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. — Sydney Brenner

Time is the only thing you can't buy. — Nicole Lapin

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. — Ashley Madekwe

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building. — Kanye West

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. — Donald Hall

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed. — Samantha Morton

Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down. — Michael Bastian

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. — Niall Ferguson

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. — Max Beerbohm

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. — Lionel Blue

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee. — Emilia Fox

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford. — Christina Stead

Are you going to eat me in my sleep?"
"Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato? — Rain Oxford

For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon. — Radclyffe Hall

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. — Harry Carpenter

I had a dream I was walking down the street and didn't have to hold anyone's hand — Kelly Oxford

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts. — Mao Zedong

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. — Kris Kristofferson